Good Sunday, everyone. Scattered showers and storms have returned to the region, kicking off a much wetter pattern in our neck of the woods. This pattern kicks it up a notch in the week ahead a moisture from the Gulf of Mexico streams into the region.
Scattered showers and storms will be noted across the region again today, especially across the east and south. Once again, locally heavy rains will be a good bet with any storm that goes up.
Does this mean everyone gets it on a ton of rain? You already know the answer to that one, but pockets of heavy rain will be possible for some.
Here are your radars to follow the Sunday storms…
Another slug of moisture brings showers and storms into the region Monday and Tuesday. The NAM is the most aggressive with these…
Additional clusters of showers and storms roll through as the week wears on…
The GFS Ensembles continue to show an above normal rainfall setup from our region into the southeastern US…
Have a great Sunday and take care.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
A total of 24 tornadoes (14 EF-0, 9 EF-1, 1 EF-2) have now been confirmed in the Chicago NWS forecast area from Monday night’s Derecho. This breaks the previous daily record of 22 tornadoes in the Chicago NWS forecast area set in March of 2023 and June of 2014.
With the six tornadoes that occurred in our forecast area Sunday night, 30 tornadoes occurred in a 48-hour time frame in NE IL and NW IN.
It’s possible even more tornadoes may be confirmed in the coming weeks as the NWS continues their analysis and storm surveys.
https://weather.gov/lot/2024_07_15_Derecho
Mike, thanks for sharing. That was some stretch of destructive weather, but that’s the Midwest. It’s bad sometimes here, and I wish now that when I moved here in 2008 that I selected an area of the country that doesn’t have severe weather. I had my chance to move to the state of Oregon, but it would have been an expensive chore to move my plant nursery business at that time. Oregon has their share of bad weather, but most of the time it is very pleasant and a great nursery state. The drought we are having here in Maple just won’t end, and it’s getting on my nerves. We have a county wide ‘ burn band ‘ and I’m worried about forest fires.